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Tackle   /tˈækəl/   Listen
Tackle

verb
(past & past part. tackled; pres. part. tackling)
1.
Accept as a challenge.  Synonyms: take on, undertake.
2.
Put a harness.  Synonym: harness.
3.
Seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball.
noun
1.
The person who plays that position on a football team.
2.
Gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails.  Synonym: rigging.
3.
Gear used in fishing.  Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig.
4.
(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage.
5.
(American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground.



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"Tackle" Quotes from Famous Books



... City is the last settlement. We'll have to go on, that's all, and thank our stars we are quit of them. Two days' journey beyond is good pasture, and water. They call it Mountain Meadows. Nobody lives there, and that's the place we'll rest our cattle and feed them up before we tackle the desert. Maybe we can shoot some meat. And if the worst comes to the worst, we'll keep going as long as we can, then abandon the wagons, pack what we can on our animals, and make the last stages on foot. We can eat our cattle as we go along. ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
... saw a determined effort made to place a famous "right tackle" in the chair of Assistant Professor of Rhetoric. The plan was only given over with great reluctance, when it was discovered that the "right tackle" was beautifully ignorant of the subject he would have to tackle. Even then it was argued he could "cram"—keeping one lesson in advance ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard
... thing or two"—for once Jimmy agreed with her, "she 'bout the butt-in-est old woman they is, and she's going to find out we 'bout the squelchingest kids ever she tackle." ...
— Miss Minerva and William Green Hill • Frances Boyd Calhoun
... to tackle the business on a small scale." Big George pondered for a moment. "We can't wait much longer. We'd ought to be on the coast now. We're shy twenty-five thousand ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
... Arizona," he said, bringing him over to Hardy with conscious pride. "Whoa, kitten, he won't hurt you. Dogged if he won't tackle a rattlesnake, and kill 'im, too. I used to be afraid to git out of bed at night without puttin' on my boots, but if any old rattler crawls under my cot now it's good-bye, Mr. Snake. Tommy is right there with the goods—and ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge


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